Re: [Dynapi-Dev] General patches + ioelement ? + demos

[Raymond I. <xw...@ya...>]

Please see below:

--- Kevin <ke...@ke...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've attached a few patches against the latest?
> (yesterday's) CVS.

Thanks very much for the patches. I will upload them
to cvs today.

> I've left IOElement still only allowing an Xframe
> thread and for
> NS4. Was there a special reason for this? I know in
> NS4 it's 
> needed as it can't post from an ilayer form? Though
> it looks
> like NS4 is only allowed to do a get?

Yes. NS4 can not do post from an ilayer <form>.
XFrames makes it possible to dynamically post data
from NS4. It can also be used to multiple isolated
calls which will result in faster multi-threaded
GET,POST and file UPLOADs in all browsers.

> 
> Does anyone have a perl port of the SODA stuff? I'd
> like to learn
> more about datasource etc.

Well, I don't know if anyone is working on it just
now, but it would be nice to have perl, php,
coldfusion, jsp, python, etc versions of the
soda.jscript.asp file. IMO I think it's best to use
the soda.jscript.asp as a template instead of
soda.vbscript.asp when porting to other languages as
soda.jscript.asp is more straight forward.

> Thanks for the demo's Raymond. Very helpfull to aid
> in my
> understanding of new features. Needed a
> dynlayer_dom.js
> patch (attached).

Your welcome.

> OK now for TabManager. It's ready over the weekend I
> hope:
> It's a pain as some browsers don't generate key
> events for all
> required keys.
> 
> So I propose the basic functionality for all
> broswers is:
> 
> 1) for moving in same tabgroup - numeric keypad left
> / right
> 2) for moving between tabgroups - numeric keypad up
> / down
> 3) for selecting the current tab/dynlayer/widget -
> space key
> 
> This is the worst case for NS4 on Windows - NS4 on
> Linux
> will require a special fix as some keys only
> generate events
> onkeyup and others onkeydown :(
> 
> To the above functionality there will be available
> for browsers
> that generate the key events.
> 
> 1) left / right arrow keys and shift+tab / tab
> 2) up / down arrowkeys
> 3) enter key
> 
> This is the best case for IE as the default use of
> the tab can be
> stopped with e.preventDefault() - Netscape will
> require a
> special fix to force focus when using the tab key.
> 
> I'll leave special fixes commented out in the code
> so are there
> if needed!

Sounds great to me! I like the left/right and up/down
approach. This will make it easier for us to create
things like spreadsheet widgets, etc.

--
Raymond Irving

> -----
> Kevin.
> 


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